Possible FC2 inclusions from fedora.us
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Mon Jan 26 12:38:18 UTC 2004
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:29:15PM +0100, Ronny Buchmann wrote:
> So what's left:
> - dd_rescue changes block size automatically (so it reads more data than dd
> or is faster, depending on the blocksize you would use for dd)
>
> > And is dd_recover using O_DIRECT when it can ?
> No, should it? (I don't see what problem this would solve.)
It can help avoid errors where readahead or I/O merging does a large
read including an error but smaller reads around the bad block might
succeed
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